Swim Team 101
- Download the
app. You will need it. I would pay for the premium for the summer because you can see results in real time if you do that. 
- Please have your swimmer arrive on time to be ready to get in the water at the onset of practice with their goggles, cap and water bottle and towel.
- Please don’t let kids play in pool before or after practices. This is disruptive to the end of and start of each practice.
- Novice swimmers need to attend 3rd practice. Evening is not an option for the little, novice swimmers. It just isn’t a safe practice environment with so many bigger or more experienced kids.The older kids who are new to the team will be placed into the appropriate practice level at new swimmer evaluation.
- Each family needs to provide a volunteer for ½ of each meet. Grandparents or siblings/cousins/babysitters ages 15 or over can volunteer. Please communicate with us if you are unable to volunteer for a meet.
- We will email out entries (or we try to) but sometimes they change prior to the actual meet, so do not write them on their arms until you get to the meet.
- Here is how you write on their arms:
- Watch/listen for their event to get called to the zoo. Then take them over and pass them off to the parents working at the zoo. After that they are good and you don’t need to worry about them. They’ll get them lined up behind the blocks. For relays for 10&unders, two kids will be at the blocks end and two will be at the other end. We will have older kids get them down to the other end and lined up. Please don’t rearrange them. Sometimes the relay lanes change at the last minute and the ones listed in the heat sheet will be old news. Please resist the urge to correct the lane they are in.
- The stroke and turn judges are told to go fairly easy on the 8&u’s especially. But, even so, that age group DQ’s a lot. Do not worry about it. The coaches try to use it as a teaching tool. They never get upset. We don’t want the kids to get upset either.
- Volunteers check in at the meet. Check in at the beginning of the meet even if you are a 2nd half volunteer! Look for our volunteer coordinator, Emily Blakey.
- We will also send out a meet email with instructions specific to the venue we are swimming at and concessions info (if available).
- Bring extra towels and warm clothes to the meets. Sometimes it is cold when we swim and they’ll need to bundle up when they get out of the water. The towels get soaked! The little ones like to write on their backs in sharpie so you may want to bring some various colors. They write “Shark Attack,” “Eat My Bubbles,” etc.
- We do not want swimmers playing at the park during meets. It is dark. There is no supervision provided by Winterset Sharks over there and kids have gotten hurt. Wet bodies + metal playground equipment + darkness = nothing good.
- We can only park on the pool side of the street during practice & meets. There will be signs up at the meets. Please follow them. We don’t put the signs up for practice but the rule is the same.
- You’ll want to bring lawn chairs to the meets. The pool furniture will be used for the meet and/or put away.
- There is a list of swimming instructors on the Sharks website for extra lessons if you want that info.
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